Asha lives a poor lifestyle in a village in India along with her mom and blind dad. When her mom passes away, her dad re-marries another woman, Rukmini, who is cruel and abusive toward Asha as well as makes her do all the work - indoors and out. Rukmini would like Asha to get married to a semi-senile villager, Lallu, an engagement date is fixed but is subsequently postponed as the date was deemed inauspicious. Shortly thereafter the entire village is agog with the news that Asha is pregnant. A man named Jeevan comes forward to claim her as his bride and she moves in with him. Little do the villagers and Asha parents' know that Asha has been intimate with an attractive and wealthy artist by the name of Anil. But since Anil has met with an accident, he is disfigured, possibly for life, and knowing that Asha will dump him as he is not attractive anymore, decides not to return. How long will Asha continue to live with Jeevan, and what will be the outcome of her child?